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Forward-looking enterprises have to be aware of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Get the latest on AI technologies such as NLP, bots, machine learning, deep learning and open source AI tools.
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News
19 Dec 2024
Boomi's Rivery acquisition aimed at AI, real-time analysis
With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics. Continue Reading
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Answer
19 Dec 2024
How bad is generative AI data leakage and how can you stop it?
Mismanaged training data, weak models, prompt injection attacks can all lead to data leakage in GenAI, with serious costs for companies. The good news? Risks can be mitigated. Continue Reading
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21 Sep 2021
Deloitte AI Academy: A training ground for AI talent
The global consulting giant's new AI Academy will provide supplemental education that closes the gap between the knowledge of AI tools and domain experiences and applications. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Sep 2021
How neural network training methods are modeled after the human brain
Training neural nets to mirror the human brain enables deep learning models to apply learning to data they've never seen before. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Sep 2021
Why companies should use AI for fraud management, detection
AI is involved in many cybersecurity processes. Now it's making inroads in fraud management and detection. The benefits, however, are not without AI's nagging bias challenge. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2021
IBM Watson Assistant tools aim to speed contact center CX
IBM has released new AI capabilities to speed virtual agents and automate more contact center tasks. The vendor also formed a partnership with contact center vendor IntelePeer. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Sep 2021
Expanding explainable AI examples key for the industry
Improving AI explainability and interpretability are keys to building consumer trust and furthering the technology's success. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Aug 2021
AI and climate change: The mixed impact of machine learning
AI can both help and hurt the environment. While companies use artificial intelligence to increase factory efficiency and lower energy costs, training AI demands a lot of energy. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Aug 2021
RPA market booms as enterprises automate with bots
The RPA sector is expected to reach nearly $3 billion this year as new vendors compete with larger established RPA specialists and tech giants for enterprise automation business. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Aug 2021
Energy consumption of AI poses environmental problems
Data centers and large AI models use massive amounts of energy and are harmful to the environment. Businesses can take action to lower their environmental impact. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Aug 2021
AI accountability: Who's responsible when AI goes wrong?
Who should be held accountable when AI misbehaves? The users, the creators, the vendors? It's not clear, but experts have some ideas. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Aug 2021
Solving the AI black box problem through transparency
Ethical AI black box problems complicate user trust in the decision-making of algorithms. As AI looks to the future, experts urge developers to take a glass box approach. Continue Reading
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03 Aug 2021
Salesforce automation strategy sharpens with acquisition
The CX giant plans to fold RPA technology from an acquisition into some of its platforms. The move comes after Microsoft and other big tech firms bought RPA vendors. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Jul 2021
The benefits of an AI-first strategy
Enterprises should put AI first in their business strategies by constantly collecting and using new data to power AI models, argues startup investor Ash Fontana. Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2021
Dell HPC and AI work spawn deployment-easing Omnia software
Dell Technologies spotlighted its open source Omnia software as part of its latest initiatives to ease the deployment and management of HPC, AI and data analytics workloads. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jun 2021
5 ways AI bias hurts your business
A biased AI system can lead businesses to produce skewed, harmful and even racist predictions. It's important for enterprises to understand the power and risks of AI bias. Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2021
Pat Gelsinger reorganizes Intel, creates datacenter, AI group
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has reorganized business units and moved executive leaders to focus on AI, graphics and other emerging data center technologies. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Jun 2021
5 top chatbot features to boost your AI plan
By infusing their chatbots with natural language understanding, contextual messaging and other AI features, enterprises can build and deploy more powerful chatbots. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2021
Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance clears antitrust hurdle
The U.S. government didn't flag the Microsoft-Nuance acquisition as violating antitrust laws, but scrutiny of big tech continues as governments try to reign in powerful companies. Continue Reading
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Definition
08 Jun 2021
fuzzy logic
Fuzzy logic is an approach to computing based on "degrees of truth" rather than the usual "true or false" (1 or 0) Boolean logic on which the modern computer is based. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Jun 2021
10 AI tech trends data scientists should know
The rising environmental and monetary costs of deep learning are catching enterprises' attention, as are new AI techniques like graph neural networks and contrastive learning. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Jun 2021
Advanced SQL skills boost data scientists' value
Learning advanced SQL skills can help data scientists effectively query their databases and unlock new insights into data relationships, resulting in more useful information. Continue Reading
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News
28 May 2021
Microsoft revs up AI push with GPT-3-enabled Power Apps
GPT-3-enabled Microsoft Power Apps will enable those with little or no coding experience to build Power FX applications on Azure using natural, conversational language. Continue Reading
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27 May 2021
Databricks steps up in competitive machine learning market
At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced AutoML, glass box tools and Delta Lake-based Feature Store capabilities for its AI platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 May 2021
How emotion analytics will impact the future of NLP
Conversational agents and chatbots struggle to understand complex human speech, including sarcasm. But that could change as NLP increasingly incorporates emotional understanding. Continue Reading
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25 May 2021
Affectiva emotion AI vendor latest in AI acquisition wave
Amid a surging market for AI technology, Smart Eye, a vendor of AI-based eye tracking and driver tracking systems, acquires a vendor of emotion-sensing AI software. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 May 2021
4 AI career path trajectories for IT professionals
As the desire for AI and machine learning in-house skills skyrocket, those looking to break into the market have a variety of career path options, including AI architect and BI developer. Continue Reading
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18 May 2021
Google Cloud debuts Vertex AI managed ML platform with MLOps
Users can build, test and deploy machine learning models and put them in production faster with Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, which contains new and existing Google AI tools. Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2021
DataRobot looks to enterprise AI coders with Zepl acquisition
By acquiring cloud data science and analytics platform vendor Zepl, DataRobot gives data scientists a cloud-native, self-service notebook to write tasks and custom models. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 May 2021
How to detect bias in existing AI algorithms
While enterprises can't eliminate bias from their data, they can significantly reduce bias by establishing a governance framework and employing more diverse employees. Continue Reading
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04 May 2021
Pegasystems to release Process AI amid hyperautomation surge
Pegasystems will add intelligent automation features to its Pega Platform that apply event stream processing, machine learning and natural language processing to business actions. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
29 Apr 2021
Moving beyond NLP to make chatbots smarter
Machine reasoning could help chatbots better understand context, which is crucial to understanding human emotions and formulating emotionally relevant responses. Continue Reading
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News
28 Apr 2021
Panasonic to buy Blue Yonder in $7.1 billion deal
Panasonic's acquisition of Blue Yonder aims to build out Panasonic's software business, but how well the traditional hardware vendor can adapt remains to be seen. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Apr 2021
Guidelines to implement storage for AI workloads
Organizations with AI-enabled projects need an effective way to store, retrieve and share massive amounts of complex data. These tips will help meet AI data storage challenges. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Apr 2021
Prepare to train AI models for IT Ops non-stop
Algorithms have the potential to revolutionize IT organizations with carefully deployed models. Explore the learning approaches needed to successfully implement and maneuver these AI deployments. Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2021
IBM Watson updates focus on data privacy and explainability
Updates include new federated learning capabilities within IBM Watson Studio and more insights into how predictions are made in IBM Planning Analytics with Watson. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Apr 2021
5 reasons NLP for chatbots improves performance
Experts say chatbots need some level of natural language processing capability in order to become truly conversational. Without language capabilities, bots are simple order takers. Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2021
IBM acquires MyInvenio to build its automation portfolio
IBM could use MyInvenio's process mining platform to direct its customers to its automation and AI portfolio, a practice that other technology vendors are using. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2021
SambaNova funding round brings in $676 million
SambaNova's large funding round shows that investors are confident in the startup's AI chips, as well as in the AI hardware market. SambaNova competes with Nvidia. Continue Reading
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News
12 Apr 2021
Nvidia releases new AI software, hardware
Among the AI news from its virtual conference, Nvidia introduced a new DGX SuperPod, an Arm-based CPU, and the general availability of Jarvis, a conversational AI framework. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2021
Microsoft to acquire Nuance in $19.7 billion deal
The all-cash acquisition will give Microsoft access to Nuance’s healthcare-focused dictation technology, as Microsoft continues to expand its role in the healthcare market. Continue Reading
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News
09 Apr 2021
Check model accuracy with Facebook AI's new data set
Facebook paid people for their likenesses in its new Casual Conversations data set. The data set can help researchers check for bias in their AI models. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Apr 2021
New DataRobot CEO sees bright AI future for the vendor
New CEO Dan Wright discusses how DataRobot can stay competitive in a crowded AI marketplace, new markets for the vendor, and how DataRobot has tackled the pandemic. Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2021
Research manager resigns amid Google AI ethics controversy
Prominent Google AI research manager Samy Bengio resigns from the company following months of internal discord and the termination of two AI researchers. Continue Reading
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News
06 Apr 2021
New Intel Ice Lake processors boost performance, security
Intel launches third-generation Xeon Scalable processors that bolster security, accelerate common data center workloads by 46% on average and support up to 40 cores per processor. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Apr 2021
Automatic speech recognition may be better than you think
Even as more enterprises turn to voice recognition systems to process unstructured audio and build virtual assistants, many organizations don't have confidence in the high accuracy of these systems. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Apr 2021
AI voice technology has benefits and limitations
The quality of an automated transcription depends on high-quality recording equipment as well as modern AI-powered transcription software, according to one CTO. Continue Reading
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News
30 Mar 2021
Cloudera Foundation merger to bring AI and data to nonprofits
The merger creates a program within the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation that will provide artificial intelligence technology and expertise to nonprofit organizations. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Mar 2021
Synthetic data for machine learning combats privacy, bias issues
Synthetic data generation for machine learning can combat bias and privacy concerns while democratizing AI for smaller companies with data set issues. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2021
Jumio CEO discusses new $150 million funding round
Jumio CEO Robert Prigge talks about Jumio's new funding round and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Jumio's digital identity verification and fraud prevention business. Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2021
Abbyy releases Vantage 2 and a new skills marketplace
Abbyy aims at further injecting automation and intelligence into its products with the launch of a new marketplace and an update to its Vantage platform. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2021
PatSnap lands $300M in Series E funding
PatSnap reports new funding for its IP and R&D management platforms, as the number of patents granted globally picked up, despite COVID-19, in 2020. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2021
Google will develop RPA with Automation Anywhere
Google Cloud and a top robotic process automation vendor team up to focus on automating back-office tasks and later industries such as financial services, healthcare and retail. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2021
Icertis raises $80M for AI-powered contract management
Icertis, founded in 2009, is now valued at more than $2.8 billion with the new funding. The vendor is a key player in the contract management niche. Continue Reading
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News
09 Mar 2021
Automation vendor WorkFusion raises $220 million
A new round of funding may vault WorkFusion into the top echelon of enterprise automation vendors currently occupied by UiPath, Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Mar 2021
Broad use of EHR voice assistants still years away
EHR voice assistants aren't much more than a Siri-type interface to the patient's healthcare record right now. But vendors and clinicians see big things for the tech. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Mar 2021
Mastercard senior VP talks about AI and fraud prevention
Mastercard uses and sells AI-powered technology to prevent fraud and has found that AI-powered services can inspire customer loyalty. Continue Reading
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News
05 Mar 2021
Samsung adds AI processor in memory to high-bandwidth memory
Samsung's new in-memory processing architecture brings compute capability to high-bandwidth memory to address data bottlenecks with AI and HPC workloads. Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Mar 2021
dropout
Dropout refers to data, or noise, that's intentionally dropped from a neural network to improve processing and time to results. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Mar 2021
Cutting through the fear of how AI will affect jobs through automation
Dive into Steven Shwartz's recent book, 'Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths,' with a chapter excerpt on employment and the future of work. Continue Reading
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News
02 Mar 2021
Microsoft brings Azure AI to the edge with Azure Percept
Azure Percept includes software for building machine learning models or deploying pre-built models, as well as hardware to deploy the models at the edge. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Feb 2021
Steel producer reduces costs using AI in manufacturing
The largest long steel producer in Latin America used data and machine learning predictions to save money, while maintaining the same level of production quality. Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Feb 2021
Businesses pivot back to AI adoption after year of slow growth
AI adoption has taken a step back when it comes to enterprise IT spending priority, but it remains a steady investment for enterprises across industries. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Feb 2021
CTO on the need for AI ethics and diversity
A CTO talks about the importance of diverse data sets when creating AI models and how a lack of diversity can create bias in systems. Continue Reading
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News
19 Feb 2021
Nvidia opens paid, instructor-led AI workshops to the public
While many technology vendors offer online courses on how to use their AI products, it still might not be enough to educate the global workforce. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Feb 2021
Artificial general intelligence in business holds promise
While AGI in business remains unattainable today, truly intelligent systems, chatbots and predictive analytics are potential use cases enterprises should keep their eyes on. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2021
DataRobot integrates Feature Discovery tool into Snowflake
The product integration comes months after Snowflake Ventures invested in DataRobot and the two vendors agreed to a strengthened partnership. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2021
Autonomous truck startup raises $200M but faces competition
The investment will fund Plus' autonomous driving software, which could enable long-haul trucks to drive themselves along long stretches of highway. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2021
Nuance touts CX benefits of AI in healthcare during pandemic
Nuance acquires speech transcription vendor Saykara, adding the startup's tech to Nuance's arsenal of health IT systems. Meanwhile, Nuance and Best Buy Health execs tout CX benefits from AI. Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2021
Microsoft makes image classification model available
Microsoft's release of a pre-trained vision model comes after Google and OpenAI also released open source vision models. The models may not have much enterprise use, though. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Feb 2021
Automated speech recognition gives CX vendor an edge
An automated transcription service can help users train their sales staff and stop robocalls. A contact center software vendor included one for free in its platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Feb 2021
Artificial general intelligence examples remain out of reach
Artificial general intelligence remains largely an aspiration goal of researchers, but as technologies advance, so too does the dream become more realistic. Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2021
Google launches a suite of retail AI products
Google released AI products for online retailers as the tech giant increases its focus on industry verticals. The new products are designed for small and large retailers. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Jan 2021
Diverse talent pools and data sets can help solve bias in AI
Bringing historically underrepresented employees into critical parts of the design process while creating an AI model can reduce or eliminate bias in that model. Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Jan 2021
The power and limitations of enterprise AI
A panel at CES 2021, held virtually this year, discusses the areas in which modern-day AI and automation shine, and where they still struggle. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2021
Doubts about Trump video show how hard deepfakes are to detect
Some Twitter users insist that a recent video of President Trump admitting his defeat in the election is a deepfake, although there's no proof. Deepfakes are difficult to detect. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2021
Intel launches RealSense ID for facial authentication
Amid a surge of facial recognition technology systems from vendors, Intel introduces RealSense ID, a system that Intel claims can accurately and quickly identify human faces. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Dec 2020
AI trends in 2020 marked by expectation shift and GPT-3
In the past year, AI hyperscalers got serious about their machine learning platforms, expectations were reset and transformer networks empowered the GPT-3 language model. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Dec 2020
Conversation intelligence helps ChowNow meet online order demand
Using RingDNA, online food ordering platform ChowNow can automatically surface insights about what works in sales calls to better coach its sales staff. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Dec 2020
AI ROI questions to ask and the hidden costs of AI
While ROI can be difficult to show with AI projects, it is crucial for AI teams to anticipate costs and prove each investment is worth the enterprise's time. Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2020
AWS digs into its new machine learning industrial products
Amazon Monitron and Lookout for Equipment use sensor data to help industrial customers predict when their machines will break. Amazon's GM of machine learning and AI explains. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Dec 2020
Emerging AI startups to look at in 2021
AI startups in the legal, MLOps, NLP and data training markets make this year's list of emerging AI vendors to look out for. Continue Reading
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News
15 Dec 2020
DataRobot releases new feature to detect AI bias
DataRobot is the latest AI vendor to address AI bias, releasing a new feature to help organizations detect and prevent bias in their models. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Dec 2020
Nuance CTO: Conversational AI is the 'next big step'
Conversational AI has steadily grown more advanced over the past several years. Nuance CTO Joe Petro explains why the vendor is refocusing on the technology. Continue Reading
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News
09 Dec 2020
New, updated IBM AI tech bring better NLP, NLU to business users
IBM is commercializing its AI governance tool, AI FactSheets, and bringing more natural language capabilities to some of its Watson products. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2020
Amazon SageMaker Clarify aims to mitigate bias in machine learning
AWS looks to tackle machine learning bias with a new a new tool that works with Amazon SageMaker products to help developers and users better detect and eliminate AI bias. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Dec 2020
Speech to text for deaf users aids in accessibility
For the millions of people who are hard of hearing, speech-to-text advancements have improved their ability to complete daily tasks -- but the tech still has a long way to go. Continue Reading
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News
01 Dec 2020
AWS releases machine learning services for industrial clients
AWS released a mix of hardware, software and cloud-based services to help manufacturing clients better manage workplace safety and machine health. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Nov 2020
How AI adoption by industry is being impacted by COVID-19
While COVID-19 has impacted budgets and businesses plans, some industries are seeing improved processes and consumer relationships due to new investments in AI and automation. Continue Reading
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News
30 Nov 2020
ServiceNow will acquire AI startup Element AI
ServiceNow's acquisition of an AI startup based in Montreal marks the latest move by the cloud computing giant to add more automation and intelligence to its platform. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2020
Courses teach automation to prepare students for the workforce
At a California university, students in April Morris' class learn how to use RPA and analytics tools. They hope to use the skills to get jobs out of school. Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Nov 2020
Google AI art tool turns 2D creatures into 3D models
These 3D chimera creatures are brought to you by Google's Chimera Painter, an AI-powered tool that turns 2D images into 3D creature models. Continue Reading
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Podcast
18 Nov 2020
Why AI adoption in the enterprise continues to lag
In this episode of 'Today I Learned About Data,' we discuss AI adoption in the enterprise, and it's been slower than many have predicted. Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2020
UiPath platform update makes it easier to deploy smarter bots
A new platform upgrade for UiPath makes it easier for users to develop and use robots at scale, as well as makes the bots more resilient to UI changes. Continue Reading
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News
17 Nov 2020
DataRobot pre-IPO funding raises company valuation to $2.7B
Amid the pandemic, Boston-based AI vendor DataRobot raised $270 million in a pre-IPO fundraising round. The company is likely to file for an IPO. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Nov 2020
How to avoid overfitting in machine learning models
Overfitting remains a common model error, but data scientists can combat the problem through automated machine learning, improving AI literacy and creating test data sets. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Nov 2020
8 examples of AI personalization across industries
Through AI content personalization, organizations can build unique profiles of users and customers and tailor their products, advertisements and services to better fit them. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
13 Nov 2020
A basic design pattern for image recognition
Learn how a design pattern based on convolutional neural networks can be adapted to create a visual graphics generator model for image recognition. Continue Reading
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Quiz
09 Nov 2020
Try this cybersecurity quiz, test your cyberdefense smarts
Based on the November 2020 issue of Information Security magazine, this 10-question quiz lets you check your comprehensive knowledge of current security issues and earn CPE credit too. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Nov 2020
AI might not have rights, but it could pay taxes
Tax, liability and patent laws can't handle AI systems, which have grown steadily smarter. As AI becomes ubiquitous, the legal system may need to change to accommodate it. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Oct 2020
Bayesian networks applications are fueling enterprise support
Cloud-based infrastructure has opened the door for enterprises to take advantage of the versatile predictive capability of Bayesian networks technology. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Oct 2020
AI fraud detection tools can help fight rising e-commerce fraud
As the coronavirus pandemic has forced more businesses online, e-commerce fraud has spiked. AI fraud detection and prevention tools, however, can help merchants. Continue Reading